Nothing so scary as " ignorance in action " ( Bertrand Russell )

New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria

I recall Bertrand Russell - who protested the Great War - saying that nothing was more scary than " ignorance in action ". He reports in his biography that he was saved from a patriotic mob only because they learned that he was " the brother of earl ". 
Socialists cannot depend on royal DNA to protect themselves from persecution .